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National Museum of Japanese History

Yoshinobu Ashihara · Sakura, Japan · 1980

Key featuresLong, low national history museum on the former grounds of Sakura Castle, where the old moat survives.

Architect
Yoshinobu Ashihara
Place
Sakura, Japan
Year
1980
Typology
Museum
Movement
Late modernism
Region
East Asia
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